Will Butler Generations Merge Records Will Butler is a busy man. It’s been five years since the release of his solo debut album Policy (2015), but in between he also released Friday Night (2016), an energetic live album, and as a member of [...]
Bibio Sleep On The Wing Warp Records To “sleep on the wing” is a reference to a bird called a swift that is capable of flying incredible distances without ever touching ground, sometimes for months at a time, and can apparently sleep while [...]
Kelly Miller & Kyle Burnett Vague Complaints Tunecore Kelly Miller and Kyle Burnett met in 2018 in Monterrey, California while studying in a master’s program for international environmental policy, and their fast friendship has lead to a [...]
The White Buffalo On The Widow’s Walk Snakefarm Records The White Buffalo, persona of one Jake Smith, has returned with a new album On the Widow’s Walk, an impressive collection of songs about the passing of time and the search for [...]
Well Yells We Mirror the Dead Independent Well Yells, the night-time name of Patrick Holbrook, has returned with his third album in the last few years We Mirror the Dead, a brooding, ominous set of tracks that thump along with a heaviness and [...]
Impulsive Hearts Cry All The Time Midwest Action/Cavity Search Records Hailing out of Chicago, Illinois, Impulsive Hearts have released their second LP, Cry All the Time, a 10-track collection of beach-bubble ice-cream-sunset garage rock (new [...]
Phantogram Ceremony Universal Music Lifelong friends Josh Carter and Sarah Barthel, otherwise known as Phantogram, have returned with their first album since 2016, Ceremony, and while it is largely heavy-hitting electronic pop with a few softer [...]
Nebular Wave Chicxulub Saw-Whet Records Hailing from Edmonton, Alberta, instrumental space rockers Nebular Wave have released their first LP Chicxulub. The album is described by them as the “refined result of late-night jams, early morning freak [...]
Evan Freeman Beyond The Stars Evan Freeman, Inc. Following his 2016 debut album Luna, Evan Freeman is back with another sonic float-about, Beyond the Stars, a 13-track collection broken into three parts of intricately crafted shoegaze that is [...]
Bishop Briggs Champion Island Records/Universal Music Canada After a rocket-like ascent into worldwide pop stardom fueled by her breakout hit “Rivers,” Bishop Briggs’ debut album, 2018’s Church of Scars, soon climbed into Billboard’s Top 10 [...]
Hunting Whatever You Need Nevado Music Five years ago, Hunting was the solo project of one Bradley Ferguson, putting out wistful, melancholy folk music. In the years since, with the addition of two new band members in Vancouver, vocalist [...]
Vetiver Up On High Mama Bird Recordings Four years since his last album Complete Strangers, Vetiver returns with Up on High, a groovy, chilled-out acoustic-driven collection of songs that feature poetic, imagistic lyrics and a hopeful tone from [...]
Mimico Hi-Action Hand Drawn Dracula After four years, Mimico returns with their third album, Hi-Action, a six-track, forty-plus minute psychedelic sci-fi trip that is buoyed by the heavy use of vintage synthesizers to create pulsing, swirling, [...]
The Persian Leaps Electrical Living Land Ski Records The Persian Leaps have put something out each fall since 2013, and just as sure as the leaves will change and everything turns pumpkin-spiced,they are back with 2019’s offering, Electrical [...]
City And Colour A Pill For Loneliness Still Records After four years, City and Colour is back with his sixth studio album, A Pill for Loneliness. Featuring 11 tracks and coming in at 52 minutes, it is a sprawling album that retains the essential [...]
Lightning Dust Spectre Western Vinyl After a six-year hiatus, Vancouver-based duo Lightning Dust return with their fourth album, Spectre, a beautiful, haunting, dreamscape of songs. The opening track “Devoted To” is a swirling, [...]
Silkworm In The West (Reissue) C/Z Records/Comedy Minus One Originally released in 1994, Silkworm’s album In The West will be reissued on vinyl for the first time in celebration of its 25th anniversary, as well as including all sorts of extra [...]
Willie Nelson Ride Me Back Home Legacy Recordings Willie Nelson’s 13th studio album with Legacy Recordings, Ride Me Back Home, is a beautiful record in which Nelson explores such grand themes as time, succumbing to it, fighting against it, as [...]
Absolutely Free Geneva Freeport Idée Fixe Records The Toronto trio known as Absolutely Free have just released a new EP titled Geneva Freeport, and it is a hypnotic 21-minute followup to their self-titled debut album of 2014, which also happened [...]
The Abyssmals Gospels, Hymns And Other Trash! Five Kill Records The Abyssmals first full-band album Gospels, Hymns, And Other Trash! has a lot going for it, including album art and the look of a band that has arrived through a portal from the [...]
